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Originally Posted by LordJvK
It's not simply expressing the opposite view though is it. It's:
- complaining to his employer
- signing a petition
These are the same thing, and for a free speech absolutist you abandoned "petitioning about grievances" real ****ing quickly.
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- presumably putting him in hot water at work
Presumably I don't care?
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- forcing a public (humiliating) apology
Nobody got forced to do anything, and if this guy didn't want to be humiliated he probably should've kept his insanely dumb racist ideas to himself.
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- organising a protest against a public speaking engagement
Hey man all you need now is to come out against freedom of the press and you'll hit the ****ing trifecta.
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I mean it's stuff right out of the High Sparrow playbook from Game of Thrones.
You don't seem to recognise any of this. Or you aren't willing to.
LOL ah yes I definitely remember that part of the book(well, let's be honest, probably the TV show for this guy) where the High Sparrow organized a letter writing campaign against anti-Wildling racism?
What the ****, I've seen a ****load of godawful politics-converted-to-pop-culture takes in my life, but this one is both incredibly obscure and completely inapposite.